sultanate
/ˈsʌltənət/
"sultanate" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sultanate” is uncommon English (frequency #57,108 among 54,294 “S” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,108
- frequency rank, English
- 54,294
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A sovereign or vassal princely state—usually Muslim—where the ruler is styled sultan.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sultanate |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /ˈsʌltənət/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,108 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “sultanate” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
sultanate is uncommon English at frequency #57,108 among 54,294 “S” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /ˈsʌltənət/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
sultanate doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Classical Persian سَلْطَنَت (saltanat). By surface analysis, sultan + -ate (forms noun denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it). The correct English form is sultanate, spelled S-U-L-T-A-N-A-T-E.
Definition
- 1A sovereign or vassal princely state—usually Muslim—where the ruler is styled sultan.
- 2The office or position of sultan.
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian سَلْطَنَت (saltanat). By surface analysis, sultan + -ate (forms noun denoting rank or office, the concrete charge of it).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “sultanate”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is S-U-L-T-A-N-A-T-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.